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In unanimous ruling, Court agrees with athletes that NCAA violated antitrust laws

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a major shift in the relationship between universities and the athletes who play sports for those schools. The district court, Gorsuch explained, only barred the NCAA from imposing restraints on benefits related to education. But, he warned, the “NCAA is not above the law.”.

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Court Decision Finds No California Performance Right in Pre-1972 Sound Recordings – Why It Was Still an Issue

Broadcast Law Blog

For years, they have sued both broadcasters and digital media companies trying to exploit an ambiguity in copyright law over the status of pre-1972 sound recordings – songs as recorded by a particular band or artist before February 1972 when sound recordings first became subject to federal copyright law.

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Supreme Court to consider NCAA student-athlete compensation, class action rules

JURIST

Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma , the court held that the NCAA could, in the interest of preserving the character and quality of college sports, impose restrictions upon players that would otherwise breach antitrust laws. ” The court also granted certiorari in TransUnion LLC v.

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H&M Prevails in Almost 25-Year-Long Fight With Adidas Over its Striped Workout Wear

The Fashion Law

“The answer to that question,” the court held , “must be based on the public’s perception of the goods [bearing adidas’s trademark] on the one hand and the [defendants’ striped] goods on the other.”. That would be for the lower court to determine. The Dutch Supreme Court decision brings the case to an end.

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US Court of Appeals confirms district court decision on transgender sport bans

JURIST

The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday affirmed a lower court’s decision to restrict legislation that bans transgender girls from playing sports in an all-girls team. The court also granted a preliminary injunction, allowing the applicants to continue playing on their sports teams.

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The Supreme Court of Japan on Punitive Damages…

Conflict of Laws

Written by Béligh Elbalti (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Law and Politics – Osaka University). Assume that you successfully obtained a favourable judgment from a foreign court that orders the losing party to pay punitive damages in addition to compensatory damages. Introduction. criminal) and function (compensatory v.

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Challenge to Texas age-verification on porn sites comes to Supreme Court

SCOTUSBlog

Share A trade group for the adult entertainment industry will appear at the Supreme Court on Wednesday in its challenge to a Texas law that requires pornography sites to verify the age of their users before providing access for example, by requiring a government-issued identification. 1181, in June 2023. Senior U.S.

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